A lawsuit filed against Dolton, Illinois mayor Tiffany Henyard last week argues she wrongfully fired an employee who defied a scheme to alter the local school board. Henyard, dubbed by some Dolton residents as the "worst mayor" in the U.S., has come under scrutiny this year over her lavish spending habits. 

Attorneys fighting over the release of documents involving a 2023 Nashville elementary school shooting pleaded with a judge Monday to finally issue a ruling settling the matter, their request taking on a more desperate tone amid the recent publication of leaked records about the shooter.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul charged a Brighton man with dissemination and possession of child pornography. The case is part of Raoul’s ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement officials throughout Illinois, to apprehend offenders who download and trade child pornography online.

An Illinois law banning the sale and use of “bump stocks” and other devices that increase the firing power of semiautomatic weapons remains in place, at least for now, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday striking down a federal ban on such items.

Groups representing Illinois financial institutions, along with the Electronic Payments Coalition, say they will fight to overturn the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, which was passed earlier this month and is set to go into effect July 1 next year.

Hinsdale High School District 86's board voted Thursday to settle with a teacher who was let go more than two years ago. The settlement was with former Hinsdale South band director Kirk Hickman. Court records state Hickman was fired in March 2022.

A 61-year-old Salem man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the January 2023 bank robbery of the Southern Illinois Bank in Zeigler. Earl Morlan was also ordered to make $3,100 restitution to the bank. Morlan still has charges in connection with the bank robbery pending in Franklin County Court at Benton, including a Class X felony armed robbery charge.

Justice Lisa Holder White of the Supreme Court of Illinois has begun an application process for a Resident Circuit Judge vacancy in Woodford County in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. The vacancy will result from the retirement of Judge Charles M. Feeney III, effective July 31, 2024.